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• Wedding Photography on a Budget: 5 Great Tips

  
  photos by richard — Authority: 133
  A wedding is a wonderful occasion, both for the happy couple, and their friends and family. As Hello magazine inspired weddings become more and more lavish, however, the costs of the typical wedding have also become exhorbitant. The average cost of a wedding in the US last year was ,000, and £20,000 in the UK. Thats ...
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• Unemployment and the UK economic cycle

  
  Economics — Authority: 138
  The ONS has produced a short piece looking at what has happened to unemployment in the UK over the last three economic recessions. Their data shows that the unemployment rate has (thus far) remained lower than it was in the first six quarters of the 1980s and 1990s recessions. The unemployment rate was 0.1 ...
  6 hours ago

• Rising savings ratio does not herald a return of thrift

  
  Economics — Authority: 138
  The savings ratio continues to move higher. But it is unlikely this heralds a return to consistent savings behaviour by consumers. Instead it reflects - in the short term at least - a decision to cut spending and repay existing debts rather than a deliberate decision to accumulate financial wealth by locking money ...
  6 hours ago

• Channel 8’s Steve Stoler Lifts Story From DallasDirt!

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 479
  Remember this story ? Which ran first here ? Well, last night I turned on WFAA-TV’s ten o clock news report and saw that Steve Stoler had all but lifted this story for a dynamo, shocker report on how foreclosed homeowners get revenge through vandalism. He even interviewed George Roddy, owner of Addison-based ...
  20 hours ago

• Rewarding failure at the Fed | Dean Baker

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  While millions of Americans have lost their jobs, Washington allows Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to keep his The Senate finance committee overwhelmingly voted to approve Ben Bernanke for another four-year term as Federal Reserve board chairman. This is a remarkable event since it is hard to imagine how ...
  1 day ago

• Recession Wedding Photography: 5 Tips

  
  A Screaming "O" — Authority: 156
  Weddings are, usually, beautiful occasions for the couple getting married as well as their guests. When you look at the amount of expense that goes into that one day, however, you may think it causes more misery financially than it does happiness on the day itself. The average American wedding cost the couple an ...
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• Tourgis development details expected soon

  
  This Is Guernsey — Authority: 153
  
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• Toy Story

  
  St. Aidan to Abbey Manor — Authority: 431
  The Guardian had a profile last week of Gary Grant , who runs the toy chain The Entertainer. Its managed to stay in business through the recession, despite not opening on Sundays and not stocking any Harry Potter merchandise. "Last year I prayed more about my business than I have ever done and in October, for the ...
  2 days ago

• Piggy Bank Balls - Wolfgang Zender Designs Spherical Way to Save

  
  TrendHunter.com - Marketing Strategy — Authority: 687
  (TrendHunter.com) Wolfgang Zender not only has a name that should go down in the Guinness Book of Badass Records,  but has also designed piggy bank balls for all those who really like paperweights.The ‘PIGGYBALL’ features…
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• Upcycled Suitcase Pet Beds - Etsy Artists Make a Cute Eco Case for Cats (GALLERY)

  
  TrendHunter.com - Marketing Strategy — Authority: 687
  (TrendHunter.com) Cats spend a lot of time sleeping. When cats aren’t trying to lie across their owner’s computer keyboards, they love to get into dresser drawers, high places, and suitcases for a little nap.Making an…
  2 days ago

• Credit Crunch Wedding Photography: 5 Top Tips

  
  2009 Senior Portrait Studio & Senior Portrait Gallery — Authority: 129
  Nowadays every young couple seems to want to get married and recreate some of the fairytale celebrity weddings they see everywhere. As Hello magazine inspired weddings become more and more lavish, however, the costs of the typical wedding have also become exhorbitant. The average American wedding cost the couple an ...
  3 days ago

• Nine Observations about Investment

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 543
  1. Above is a chart of the growth rate, from four quarters earlier, of real investment in equipment and software. Notice the left scale. Investment spending is very volatile. This is one of the standard stylized facts about the business cycle. 2. Investment has been particularly weak during this economic downturn. ...
  3 days ago

• Friday Scoop on Credit Karma & Housing Market News

  
  Credit and Personal Finance Blog | Credit Karma — Authority: 125
  The unemployment rate is falling! A government report shows that more states, 36 to be exact, reported declining unemployment rates in November while only 8 states posted rising unemployment; 6 states held the same jobless rate. Across the nation, the unemployment rate improved to 10% from October’s 10.2%. Better ...
  4 days ago

• Insider Tales From That Henry S. Miller Commercial Auction

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 479
  So, Henry S. Miller put together this mega commercial property auction on Tuesday to try and get some props moving. Now I have not heard anything official from HSM yet, but a very reliable source who was at the auction told me that not one property hit the reserve, that confidential “this is as low as I’ll go” ...
  4 days ago

• Dallas Real Estate Report: Better Days Ahead or are We Wearing Our Rosy Glasses Today?

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 479
  Steve Brown is handing out some pretty positive outlooks, and he has company across the country. Me, I hope he’s right, but I remain cautiously optimistic. The rich ain’t as rich as they used to be: homeowners with mortgages of more than one million – yowsers — are defaulting at almost twice the rate, says ...
  4 days ago

• Who needs casino bankers? | Stephanie Blankenburg

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  If the bonus tax sends a few traders and investment bankers abroad, so what? We must take power back from the risk-takers Andy Haldanes comments on the BBC World Service in defence of the bonus supertax on banks are important, not because the supertax will do much to get us out of the worst economic crisis for a ...
  4 days ago

• Is Goldman really a bank? Would some tax increases make sense right away?

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 495
  As economists claim that we are coming out of our Great Recession, and Bernanke opines that getting (nonexistent) inflation under control is more important than doing something to prevent 10% unemployment from plaguing the country for at least a half-a-decade to come (see these various postings on Bernankes ...
  5 days ago

• Impact of global recession on developing countries

  
  Economics — Authority: 138
  Open economies, which are highly trade dependent and export only a small range of products to few markets, are affected most by the trade transmission mechanism. This helps to understand the wider economic and social effects of the 2009 global downturn. The recession has affected developing countries in many different ...
  5 days ago

• Credit Card Opt Out Options

  
  Smart Balance Transfers — Authority: 116
  If you get a piece of mail from a credit card company these days, its much more likely to be an opt out notice than a 0% APR for 1 year offer.  During the past two years, credit card offers sent via the mail have declined by nearly 75%.  However, that hasn’t stopped credit card companies from using the postal ...
  5 days ago

• The Entertainers Gary Grant: the Christian toyshop entrepreneur

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The retailer on praying for his troubled rivals, banning Harry Potter and expanding his business in the teeth of a recession Most businessmen pray for their rivals to come a cropper – not hold a prayer meeting when they do. But when Woolworths went bust last year , there was little celebration at the headquarters ...
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